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NUG Meeting: June 12-13, 2006
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
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| NUG Business Meeting
Monday, June 12 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, room B-318 |
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| Time (Eastern) | Topic | Presenter |
| 9:00 | Welcome & logistics | Stephane Ethier, PPPL |
| 9:15 | DOE Update [PowerPoint] | Barbara Helland, DOE MICS |
| 9:45 | BREAK | |
| 10:00 | NERSC Status and Five Year Plan 2006-2010 [PowerPoint] | Bill Kramer, NERSC |
| 11:15 | BREAK | |
| 11:30 | NERSC Metrics [PowerPoint] | Jonathan Carter, NERSC |
| 12:00 | LUNCH: An open discussion of metrics applied to NERSC | |
| 1:00 | NUGEX Elections | Stephane Ethier, NUGEX Vice Chair |
| 1:15 | NERSC Global Filesystem Future Directions [PowerPoint] | Matt Andrews, NERSC |
| 1:45 | Benchmarking and System Architecture Updates [PDF] [PowerPoint] | John Shalf, NERSC |
| 2:15 | Scientific Computing Highlight: "Particle simulations of collective effects in high intensity charged particle beams." [PowerPoint] | Hong Qin, PPPL |
| 2:45 | BREAK | |
| 3:00 | Scientific Computing Highlight: "Modeling the Universe Computationally: The Role of Global Filesystems and Diverse HPC Resources." [PowerPoint] | Peter Nugent, LBNL & NERSC |
| 3:30 | NERSC-5 Procurement Update [PowerPoint] | Bill Kramer, NERSC |
| 4:00 | Q&A, open discussions | NUG Members, chaired by Stephane Ethier |
| 5:00 | National Spherical Torus Experiment Tour | |
| 6:30 | DINNER TALK: "The Fusion Program and ITER" [PowerPoint (32.5 MB)] [PDF (1.4 MB)] | Richard Hawryluk, PPPL |
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Training Day
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, room B-318 | ||
| Bassi - NERSC's New POWER5 System | ||
| Time (Eastern) | Topic | Presenter |
| 9:00 | Bassi Overview and Status: a high-level description of the system, its configuration, processors, interconnect, file systems, and software. PowerPoint | Richard Gerber, NERSC |
| 9:45 | POWER5 processor and Bassi node overview: POWER 5 basics, differences from POWER 3, node configuration, memory layout, processor and memory affinity PDF PowerPoint | John Shalf, NERSC |
| 10:30 | BREAK | |
| 10:45 | The High Speed Interconnect and Switch: getting the most out of HPS - network characteristics (MPI & LAPI latency, bandwidth), runtime performance settings, network topology, differences from Seaborg PowerPoint | Jonathan Carter, NERSC |
| 11:30 | Compiling for Performance on Bassi: AIX Fortran, C, C++; recommended compiler options, useful compiler options, libraries, porting from Seaborg and Linux clusters. PowerPoint | Michael Stewart |
| 12:15 | BREAK | |
| 12:30 | LUNCH TALK: Experiences benchmarking GTC on High Performance Computers PDF | Stephane Ethier, PPPL |
| 1:30 | Benchmark Performance on Bassi: performance is compared to Seaborg, Jacquard, and a variety of other HPC platforms. PowerPoint | Jonathan Carter, NERSC |
| 2:15 | Experiences Configuring, Debugging, Validating and Running on Bassi PowerPoint | Richard Gerber |
| 3:00 | BREAK | |
| 3:15 | High Level File Storage and Parallel I/O for Fusion Applications using ParallelHDF5 | Canceled |
| 3:30 | Visualization using AVS/Express and VisIt (Details) | Cristina Siegerist, NERSC/LBNL |
| 5:00 | ADJOURN | |
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